Higher Education CoP - Project Management in a Biotech Startup Setting: a Year in Review

Virtual Meeting

In a quickly growing start-up environment, project management tools are essential for success and need to be developed early. Within a year, the research & development (R&D) team at Variant Bio tripled from five employees to fifteen. When Alyson joined Variant Bio as R&D employee number five, she was given full creative liberty to establish tracking systems to organize genome-wide associated studies (GWAS)-backed associations, triage new genetic targets, and note cross-functional team communication. These tools currently are used across teams, by leadership, and contribute to a competitive R&D pipeline. After the development of these tracking systems and tools, the data needs to be maintained and managed on a weekly, if not daily basis. Expanding beyond data organization and tracking, a fast-paced drug discovery role requires project management skills to facilitate internal and external collaborations, lead projects in the lab, generate data by ambitious timelines, manage clinical research organizations and external data generation, and communicate scientific results to leadership. The early establishment of these project management tools have contributed to the success of individuals, teams, and the company over the past year.

Chapter Meeting – May 2023: Agile Practices for All Projects

Virtual Meeting

Abstract:

Agile methods are becoming increasingly prevalent, and have facilitated projects in reducing time to market, being adaptive to changing customer requirements, and increasing value to customers and organizations. These benefits have been implemented in both IT and non-IT environments to help all types of projects.
This webinar will present ways to leverage some Agile software development techniques and processes that can be readily incorporated into your projects to enable greater flexibility and higher productivity, while maintaining the traditional project lifecycle framework. The overall goal of the webinar is for you to be able to integrate appropriate Agile elements and/or techniques into any project in any environment.

After this one-hour session, learners will be able to:

• Apply Agile development techniques in a project lifecycle framework

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